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“I don't really have a great deal of spare time. I still have a house in the country, but I'm in London 90 percent of the time.”

Stills Country House Deals Percent London Spares Spare Time

Author:Bryan Ferry

“Eisenhower managed to begin the Vietnam war by not following his normal instinct of staying out of mischief. In his memoirs, he tells us why we didn't honor the Geneva accords and hold elections in Vietnam: because some 80 percent of the country would have voted for Ho Chi Minh. This is very candid. The sort of thing one might have found in Stalin'smemoirs, had he not made ghosts even of ghosts.”

Made War Country Might Found Honor Normal Percent Election Instinct Following Ghost Memoir Staying Vietnam Accord Vietnam War Mischief Candid Geneva

Author:Gore Vidal

“Up until 1986, the top marginal rate, the top statutory rate was 50 percent. Now it's 35 percent. And all the pressure is on to lower that even further. And this just doesn't make a great deal of sense. When people say, 'Oh, we can't raise taxes on the rich. They'll go on strike, they'll move to another country.' But within recent memory, it hasn't been that long ago that we had rates that were substantially higher. And these people did just fine. I just think that there's a disconnect between the facts of what taxes do and the sort of mythology of what they do.”

People Thinking Long Country Facts Moving Memories Deals Rich Fine Goes On Higher Taxes Percent Pressure Raises Rate Strikes Mythology Long Ago

Author:Bruce Bartlett

“We have 11 million people said to be in our country illegally. Forty percent of them are said to have overstayed their visa. Do we know where they are?”

People Knows Said Country Millions Percent Our Country Forty Visa

Author:Rand Paul

“What we have got to do immediately is to say that racism and xenophobia is totally unacceptable and we will stand with the 1 percent of our population who are Muslims, for undocumented people in this country. Absolutely, we will stand.”

People Country Racism Percent Population Xenophobia

Author:Bernie Sanders

“According to a new poll, 50 percent of Americans think the country is divided. The other 50 percent think it isn't.”

Thinking Country Percent Divided Polls

Author:Jay Leno

“The US is a country [in which] eighty percent of the population thinks the Bible was written by god. About half think every word is literally true. So it's had to appeal to that - and to the nativist population, the people that are frightened, have always been... It's a very frightened country and that's increasing now with the recognition that the white population is going to be a minority pretty soon, "they've taken our country from us."”

People Thinking Country White Half Taken Written Percent Population Our Country Recognition Appeals Minorities Frightened Eighty

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Ted Cruz supported a 500-percent increase in the number of H-1 visas, the guest workers that are allowed into this country, and Ted supports doubling the number of green cards.”

Country Numbers Support Percent Increase Green Workers Cards Guests Cruz Visa Green Card

Author:Marco Rubio

“There is not a single person in the national defense apparatus of this country that can guarantee you are going to be 100 percent right. And that's why as president, I'll take this very seriously.”

Persons Country President Percent Defense Guarantees Single Person National Defense

Author:Marco Rubio

“There is nobody in this country who got rich on his own.”

Country Rich Percent Class Warfare Social Contract Occupy Movement

Book:A Fighting Chance

Source: A Fighting Chance

“The voice-over world has changed radically in the time that I've been in it. It used to be this rather small, select group of people who did 90 percent of the work. Now it's kind of the reverse: 90 percent of the work is done by this very broad mix of people all over the country, and the guys who used to be the go-to guys are a much smaller percentage now. But there was this massive interest in voice-over as well as in the story, so I think that also added to the film's appeal.”

People Thinking World Wells Kind Country Done Stories Film Used Guy Voice Interest Groups Changed Percent Used To Be Appeals Massive Broads Reverse Percentages Select Voice Over

Author:Fred Melamed

“A "New York Times"/CBS poll found 59 percent of the country didn`t think Sarah Palin was prepare for the job that John McCain had picked her for.”

Thinking Country Jobs Found New York Percent Polls New York Times Mccain Palin

Author:Rachel Maddow

“In China, it was always said that a double-digit rate of growth would be dangerous. Now, the country has a growth rate of 6.9 percent and suddenly that is supposed to be a catastrophe for the global economy.”

Said Country Would Be Growth Economy Dangerous Percent Rate China Supposed To Be Catastrophe Global Economy

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“I think win the election big, if she can win it, I`d like to see Hillary Clinton 54, 55 percent because I want her to rule the country.”

Ifs Thinking Want Country Bigs Winning Percent Election Clinton

Author:Ryan Grim

“For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.”

World Years Has Beens Country Poverty Percent Hundred Historical Rate Debt Oil

Author:Hugo Chavez

“The reality is that we have one of lowest voter turnouts of any major country on earth because so many people have given up on the political process. The reality is that there has been trillions of dollars of wealth going from the middle class in the last 30 years to the top 1/10th of 1 percent.”

People Years Has Beens Country Reality Earth Lasts Political Given Process Wealth Class Middle Majors Percent Dollars Middle Class Voters Lowest Given Up Voter Turnout

Author:Bernie Sanders

“If you go to a diner in the middle of America, people are having these conversations, but our politicians are too scared to bring it up because they're worried about offending the 0.002 percent of the country that may somehow be subject to what the conversation may be. And it's ridiculous.”

People Ifs May Country America Middle Subjects Politician Conversation Percent Scared Ridiculous Worried Offending Diners

Author:Donald Trump, Jr.

“The unemployment rate among the young in the United States is still very disconcerting, although we all know it's nowhere near as bad as it is in some of the European countries, where in some places it approaches 50 percent.”

Knows Stills Country States Young United United States Approach Percent Rate Unemployment European Countries Unemployment Rate

Author:Anna Quindlen

“We now have some years of very reliable polling by Western firms in the Islamic world, in multiple Islamic countries. And invariably, the question that asks, "Do you view U.S. foreign policy as an attack on Islam and Muslims?" is maxed out. Whether it's Jordan or Indonesia or Egypt, you get 80,85 percent of people saying "Yes."”

People World Years Country Asks Views Policy Percent Islam Western Firm Islamic Foreign Policy Multiple Egypt Indonesia Jordan Saying Yes Polling

Author:Michael Scheuer

“This is a very important issue that the corporate media chooses not to talk about a whole lot, that we have an economic system which is rigged, which means that at the same time as the middle class of this country is disappearing, almost all of the new income and wealth in America is going to the top 1 percent. You have the top one-tenth of 1 percent owning almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent - 58 percent of all new income is going to the top 1 percent.”

Mean Important Country Whole America Wealth Class Issues Economic Middle Media Percent Bottom Disappear Income Corporate Middle Class Economic Systems Important Issues Rigged

Author:Bernie Sanders

“We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.”

Knows Men Two Real Country Shows Young Fall Girl Hours Boys Tvs Ought Percent Labor Real Life Ads Household Show Me Chores Boy And Girl

Author:Melinda Gates

“In the United States, there's definitely some controversy about birth control in general, and I think we needed to split the debate and have people realize that we actually agree as a country about contraceptives. Over 93 percent of American women say they use contraceptives, and they feel very good about it.”

People Thinking Feels Country States Use Realizing United United States Birth Needed Percent Agree Very Good Debate Splits Controversy Birth Control American Woman Contraceptives

Author:Melinda Gates

“[Donald Trump] has said that very consistently [about border], the contrast with Hillary Clinton, who supports amnesty, open borders, who wants to implement executive amnesty again on day one, even though the Supreme Court of the United States rejected it, and Hillary Clinton, who wants to increase refugees from the terrorist-torn country of Syria by 550 percent.”

“Hillary Clinton supports open borders, amnesty and even wants to increase Syrian refugees to this country by 550 percent.”

Want Country Support Percent Increase Clinton Borders Refugee Amnesty Syrian Refugees

Author:Mike Pence

“60 percent of Syria is controlled either by ISIS, Jabhat al-Nusra or other terrorist organisations, organisations that have been recognised as terrorist by the United States, as well as other countries and the UN. It is them and not anyone else who have control over 60 percent of Syrian territory.”

Wells Has Beens Country States United United States Percent Terrorist Als Controlled Territory Other Countries Syria Isis Organisation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“You have a country that is 20 percent liberal, 40 percent conservative. You have a country where maybe 22 percent have faith in government. If you're a liberal, it's just going to be tough. And you should just expect that. And it's tough for people on the right, too, because they don't get what they want either if you're, say, a libertarian. So, you have got the country sort of against you. And, nevertheless, you have a president.”

People Ifs Want Should Country Government President Percent Tough Conservative Libertarian Have Faith Nevertheless

Author:David Brooks

“Barack Obama did get a higher percentage of the vote than anybody has in this country in 20 years. I mean, it was a resounding victory. I mean, whether his core constituency was 20 percent or what, his electoral constituency, which is how we measure elections, was 53 percent, which was, you know, historically high, the highest of any Democrat, other than Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson.”

Knows Years Mean Country Victory Higher Highest Percent Vote Election Democrat Core Barack Percentages Johnson Franklin

Author:Mark Shields

“Looking at the map of the Russian Federation, one can see a country covering mostly northern areas; today more than 70 percent of our territory is or can be referred to as northern, if not the Far North. We have a rather small warm Black sea strip in the South and - to tell the truth - quite a few regions with a hospitable warm climate.”

Ifs Country Today Black Sea Percent Areas South Climate Warm Telling The Truth Regions Maps Territory Covering Federation

Author:Vladimir Putin

“I have criticized it [Europe], but I repeat: we keep 40 percent of our gold and foreign currency reserves in euros, we are not interested in the collapse of the Eurozone, but I do not rule out the possibility of decisions being made that would consolidate a group of countries equal in economic development and this, in my opinion, will lead to a consolidation of the euro. But there can also be some interim decisions in order to keep the present number of members of the Eurozone unchanged.”

“Six percent, 5 percent of our GDP for him [Vladimir Putin] to match us, he has to spend 25 percent of his GDP and it will bankrupt his country.”

Country Six Percent Putin Gdp

Author:Rudy Giuliani

“The war on drugs causes other supplemental crimes to take place because of the original illegality of it. But then again, that's the other reason that they're fighting it is the corporate prisons they have now. Because they've privatized all our prisons, corporations have to make money, and the only way they can make money is, I believe, the prisons have to be at least 80-90 percent full. That's why the United States - which is home of the brave, land of the free - we have more people in prison than any other country in the world.”

“Senator apparently having overcome his loyalty to his wife and father. [Ted] Cruz finally came out and endorsed Donald Trump writing on Facebook, "If Clinton wins, we know with 100 percent certainty that she would deliver on her left-wing promises with devastating results for our country. My conscience tells me I must do whatever I can to stop that."”

Ifs Knows Writing I Can Country Father Winning Left Results Wife Trump Promise Percent Conscience Overcoming Wings Clinton Loyalty Our Country Certainty Senators Left Wing Cruz

Author:Chris Hayes

“The kind of plan that Donald [Tramp] has put forth would be trickle-down economics all over again. In fact, it would be the most extreme version, the biggest tax cuts for the top percent of the people in this country than we've ever had.”

People Kind Country Facts Would Be Cutting Plans Taxes Percent Economics Extremes Versions Tax Cuts Tramps Trickle Down Trickle Down Economics

Author:Hillary Clinton

“America is an incredibly polarized country politically. I think ANY Republican would start out with 42 percent of the vote.”

Thinking Country America Republican Percent Vote

Author:Gene Weingarten

“Truly 1 percent of this country serves and protects the freedoms of the other 99 percent of us, so many of us don't have that connection. Fortunately, Jill Biden does. She's a blue-star mom. Their son was in the National Guard - or is in the - in - is a Reservist.”

Doe Country Stars Son Mom Protect Percent Connections Blue Biden National Guard

Author:Michelle Obama

“When 40 billion of treasury bills are sold like, seven day treasury bills, at a yield of 1/20th of one percent, that means the whole country is basically at the point virtually, or a lot of the country is at the point of putting the money under the mattress.”

Mean Country Whole Percent Bills Seven Billions Yield Treasury Seven Days Mattresses Treasury Bill

Author:Warren Buffett

“I think the rest of the country should be paying less, the 95 percent that [Barack] Obama talks about or maybe even a little higher than that.”

Thinking Should Littles Country Higher Percent Barack

Author:Warren Buffett

“Look at Germany where 20 percent of the labor force is in manufacturing compared to about 8 percent in the United States. Germany pays a lot more conscious attention at the level of the federal government to attracting and keeping manufacturers in Germany. So this is something that other countries do that the United States has not historically done.”

Looks Country States Done Government Force Levels United Pay Attention United States Percent Conscious Labor Germany Other Countries Federal Government Manufacturing Labor Force

Author:Edward Alden

“I live in a country where 90 or 95 percent of the people profess to be religious, and maybe they are religious, though my experience of religion suggests that very few people are actually religious in more than a conventional sense.”

People Country Religious Percent Conventional

Book:Collected Papers

Source: Collected Papers

“America is a country in which 75 percent of the people believe there's widespread corruption. We have got to go back to re-establishing a sense of trust. That has to be an assignment Trump takes personally. And that has to be more than trust me because trust me never works in the long run as a model. It's just - it's not possible.”

People Believe Long Country Running America Trump Models Percent Corruption Long Runs Trust Me Assignments

Author:Newt Gingrich

“In the beginning of the 19th century, maybe forty percent of women and fifty percent of men could produce a signature, which meant that they'd had at least three years of education because it was in third grade that people started penmanship in the 19th century. And of course black people could get killed if they got caught teaching themselves to read in some parts of the country.”

People Ifs Men Years Country Three Courses Black Teaching Century Produce Percent Thirds Caught Fifty Grades Forty Black People Three Years 19th Century Signatures Third Grade Penmanship

Author:Robert Hass

“People talk about [Bashar] Assad running Syria. He doesn't control his own country. He's down to about 20, 25 percent of the country. What is this fiction that he is somehow the only person who can save Syria? There's - with Assad there, there is no Syria. So that's what the Iranians and the Russians need to really begin to focus in on.”

People Needs Persons Country Running Fiction Focus Percent Syria Assad

Author:John F. Kerry

“I suspect that Donald Trump is going to be very tough with those countries that don't spend at least 2 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. He will ask them why should we allow a free-ride policy.”

Should Country Asks Policy Products Trump Percent Tough Defense Suspects Gross Gross Domestic Product

Author:Newt Gingrich

“We had Hillary Clinton try and do a reset. We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons, like lots of things, are done with uranium, including some bad things.”

Knows Giving Trying Country Done Weapons Percent Clinton Including Nuclear Russia Our Country Bad Things Nuclear Weapons Reset Uranium

Author:Kevin Drum

“Some people say Russia is running at 50 percent of its gross domestic product under that during the Communist period. In fact, none of the countries seems to have recovered the level that they had under communism, although the other countries in Eastern Europe are doing better than Russia and particularly the Czech Republic seems to be doing modestly well. East Germany I can't count because they have a rich uncle. You have economic benefits which have nothing to do with the workings of the system.”

“In 1949, the country of Palestine was partitioned after the war in such a way that the State of Israel-proper consisted of 78 percent of this country of Palestine. What was left to the Arabs was 22 percent, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.”

Way War Country States Left Percent West Israel Palestine Gaza Gaza Strip

Author:Uri Avnery

“Palestinians want a state of their own. They want to live in freedom. They want to get rid of the terrible misery in which they are living. They are ready after fifty years to accept a state of their own in 22 percent of what used to be the country of Palestine. I think it is the height of stupidity on our part if we don't grasp this opportunity.”

Ifs Thinking Want Years Country States Used Opportunity Accepting Ready Terrible Percent Misery Stupidity Used To Be Height Fifty Palestinian Palestine

Author:Uri Avnery

“There's an effort on the part of many people to attack women's rights, women's health, and the ability to control our own lives. No doubt about it. And it is not a majority of the country, in any way, shape, or form. I know on the contraceptive issue, 70 percent of the country agrees with me. Will that stop my opponents? No. Because they are so radical. They chip away and chip away.”

People Knows Way Country Form Ability Effort Issues Doubt Rights Shapes Percent Agree Majority Radical Opponents No Doubt Womens Rights Chips Contraceptives Women's Health

Author:Barbara Boxer

“When I ran against George Bush Sr. in 1992, and we did very well in New Hampshire, and then we went on to California, it was four, five months later, I got 30 percent in the counties in Southern California, because Californians wanted us to do something about thousands of people walking into our country on weekends, and the president of the United States and the government of the United States, unlike General Eisenhower who dealt with it, did nothing. And that's what Trump is riding.”

“In Burma, we have only about four percent of the people in our country who are (college) graduates. So can we not value the majority? No, we must. If we just value the graduates, then does that mean our people are not valuable? I don't believe that. What is important is we need right people in right positions.”

People Ifs Needs Believe Mean Doe Important Country Values Four Position College Percent Majority Don't Believe Valuable Our Country Graduates Burma College Graduates

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

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